my best friend in junior high used to (badly) sing parts of Joes Garage in PE class (1981). Then we would listen to his older brothers copies of that and You are what you is while his brother was at work. before that i had only heard i dont want to get drafted the one time they played it on the radio in Tampa. The MTV concert totally hooked me.

never hears of him till a few of my girlfriends and i ran across by accident a few months ago the movie 200 motels on netflix and knowing nothing about the movie or Frank Zappa we were astounded and thought it was ah, who to say, what to say, very interesting in a sick way sort of way. been listening on utube.

never hears of him till a few of my girlfriends and i ran across by accident a few months ago the movie 200 motels on netflix and knowing nothing about the movie or Frank Zappa we were astounded and thought it was ah, who to say, what to say, very interesting in a sick way sort of way. been listening on utube.

Me? FZ? Summer of Love '67 in the SF bay area. I was swimming against the current,and took alot a crap for it,but I know what I like.By '75 and disco,most of my friends had grown up some and liked the Hot Rats album,Mothers Live '71 and he got more popular with my friends after One Size Fits All.He seemed to be hitting his stride and out came Overnight Sensation, Apostrophy,Shiek Yerbouti and Joe's Garage to name a few.One of my favorites is The Grand Wazoo.

Zoot Allures Christmas 1976. My older brother brought it home. I loved it straight away especially the line about "losing control of my body functions on the roller headed ladies front lawn" in "Wonderful Wino". I confiscated it from my brother and have been on board ever since.

Zoot Allures Christmas 1976. My older brother brought it home. I loved it straight away especially the line about "losing control of my body functions on the roller headed ladies front lawn" in "Wonderful Wino". I confiscated it from my brother and have been on board ever since.

Just went and checked out Zoot Allures on utube and wow what fun, that low voice turned on young girls, YES ? ms pinkii was a hoot!

I already had the respect for his musicianship even though I had not heard a lot of things at all ... but I trusted the Germans giving him some credit, and John Lennon ... even though at the time I was not sure what it meant.

In 1972 I got a group called "Babe Ruth" that had a killer version of King Kong and I immediately went out and got the Frank Zappa album and it was the start of his stuff for me.

Unlike most "fans", I appreciate his odd stuff a lot more than I do his radio-ready stuff. Most folks seem to come from the OvernightSensation/Apostrophe era, but the fact of the matter is that Frank was around 10 years before that and we did not go back and listen to that stuff ... and how important that stuff was in helping music all over get around and develop.

The only folks openly talking about Frank and his work, were the Germans in the so-called "Krautrock" scene, which was an idea that was based on refusing to use western concepts in music, and Frank, while not stating so, was pretty much throwing those into the mixer anyway ... but it was his apparentl reckless and healthy disrespect for radio and tradition, that brought the best out of him as a satirist of sorts.

Later, he became a joke, and by the time you get the Enema Bandit ... I really thought that he had lost it, but the music was still good ... though not as much fun to listen to as other things. I much prefer his period in the late 60's when his work was at its most important and valuable ... that most folks can not deal with ... and things like 200 Motels are so far ahead of its time and place ... that people still can not sit and watch it and appreciate it, 40 years later!

I discovered Zappa via working at a collage radio station in 1994. I started collecting the early mothers albums (Freak Out - Uncle Meat), but the day I rented the video tape of "Baby Snakes" at an underground cult video store, that truly changed my life. It's weirdness solidified my loyalty and passion.

Somewhere during the fall/winter of my junior year in H.S. There was a guy on our swim team who would always bring his boombox and one of three or four different Zappa mix tapes that had been handed down to him by his older brother. I became a fan and by summer break and I fthen acquired vinyl copies of Sheik Yerbouti and Apostrophe...it grew into a huge pile of Zappa recordings, over the years, from there.

I hung around with the cooler older guys at a youth club and they were talking about One Size Fits All and how Zappa was a genius.I went out to my local record store and bought it without hearing it first.My first dose of Zappa was Inca Roads. Never looked back since then.

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